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Maureen Howard's fifth novel offers far less bitterness than its premise promises. Her heroine will not be content with simply calling up the past and assessing blame. Margaret wants to make amends for her own mistakes, in her life and in her books. She is also willing to go to extraordinary lengths to stay alive...
...insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which recommended a $5 billion clean-up plan...
...Jewish component of their lives. For some, there may be discomfort in varying degrees with both of these elements. There must be people who are at home with both the gay/lesbian elements, but these folks don't generally seek out rabbis to talk about it, so I must be content with hypothesizing their existence...
...credit, Spencer has not been content simply to repeat himself. True, a spooky erotic attachment threads its way through this tale. Narrator Fielding Pierce, 34, has trouble forgetting his girlfriend Sarah Williams, who was blown up by a car bomb nearly five years earlier while driving in Minneapolis with some Chilean refugees. In those days, Pierce was a University of Chicago law student who harbored political ambitions. Now he is a prosecutor in the Cook County D.A.'s office and has been offered the Democratic machine's support for an Illinois congressional seat. Isaac Green, his influential mentor, gives...
...lean Chianina was developed at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and is expected to be in Texas supermarkets in late summer. It has 25% less fat and 36% fewer calories than ordinary beef, although the cholesterol content is not significantly lower. Chianina is a descendant of a breed raised in the Chiana Valley of Italy since Roman times. Cooked as directed, the rather pale meat with slightly yellowish fat was virtually tasteless except for slight acidic overtones. Most successful was the steak, pan-grilled and served very rare. What little fat there was in Chianina cuts had an unpleasant waxy...